FLYING NEW JETS ON EMPTY TANKS
By Peter Honey
It was a terrible year, truly terrible - the worst I have experienced since taking command," says air force chief Lt Gen Roelf Beukes. He's speaking about 2001, when the air force started the year with an R85m (4,4%) budget deficit and a belt-...

FINANCIAL WOES TRIGGER ALARM
By William Mervin Gumede
Cosatu has stepped in to clean up damaging financial scandals that have crippled some of its biggest affiliates. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM); the National Education, Health & Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu); and the SA Transport & Alli...

AMENDMENT BILL SOFTENS DIVISION ON SCHOOL CONTROL
By Claire Bisseker
Educators, especially at independent schools, are relieved that the Education Laws Amendment Bill has been softened, but serious concerns remain. Chief among these is a provision that removes the power of school governing bodies to interview...

CARROT AND STICK FOR RANK AND FILE
By William Mervin Gumede
In a move to counter growing discontent among its rank and file over government policy, the ANC leadership under president Thabo Mbeki has proposed a "booster package" of economic measures, to be discussed at its 51st national conference in Decem...